The Tower

Uwe Tellkamp · 2008 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

The educated bourgeoisie of a Dresden villa quarter live out the last seven years of the German Democratic Republic, from 1982 to 1989, among doctors, publishers and officers in the army. The novel won the Deutscher Buchpreis in 2008.

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